Latest Shadow Brokers dump includes evidence NSA hacked SWIFT transaction system in the Middle East, has new exploits for older Windows versions up to Windows 8
For eight months, the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has trickled out an intermittent drip of highly classified NSA data.
Apple received permit to test autonomous vehicles in California; DMV spokesman says Apple applied to test three 2015 Lexus RX450h vehicles
Apple has received a permit to test autonomous cars in California, the first official confirmation that the maker of the iPhone sees the century-old automobile …
Microsoft says Windows exploits disclosed by Shadow Brokers have been patched on all currently supported versions of Windows
Microsoft says it has already patched the Windows exploits released by the Shadow Brokers group. The hacking tools, likely originating from the NSA …
Facebook rolling out tech that analyzes patterns to find fake accounts that can spread misinformation, malware, and falsely boost page rankings
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is ramping up efforts to kill off sham accounts used to spread fake news, pass along malware and falsely boost page rankings …
Japan's NHK: Apple considering multibillion dollar investment in Toshiba's chip business for stake of more than 20%
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is considering investing at least several billion dollars in the chip business put up for sale by Toshiba Corp (6502.T), public broadcaster NHK reported, citing an unidentified sour...
Uber shares Q4 2016 numbers: gross bookings up 28% QoQ to $6.9B, net revenue up 74% QoQ to $2.9B, net loss up 5% to $991M
The ride-hailing giant opens up its books for the first time in an interview with Bloomberg. — by — Uber Technologies Inc. isn't required to report its finances publicly …
Microsoft reveals first FBI National Security Letter in transparency report, says US foreign intelligence surveillance requests doubled from H2 2015 to H1 2016
Microsoft published its biannual transparency report on Thursday, revealing its first National Security Letter from the FBI.
Deep learning AI systems, which may help make important decisions in the future, are neither understandable to their creators nor accountable to their users
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.
Google retires the Octane JavaScript benchmark, since developers are making optimizations to boost scores at the expense of real world performance
JavaScript engines have focused too much on the benchmark, to the detriment of the real world. — Google has announced …
Uber tells restaurants using UberRush to switch to UberEats by May 8; spokeswoman says UberRush will focus on backend delivery logistics for merchants
Uber plans to shut down UberRush, its backend logistics and courier service, for restaurants on May 8, Quartz has learned.
FCC's 600MHz spectrum band auction results: T-Mobile will pay $7.99B for what it says is 31MHz of spectrum nationwide, Dish to pay $6.2B, Comcast to pay $1.7B
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A look at adversarial images, which target and trick AI systems into misidentifying people or objects
There's a scene in William Gibson's 2010 novel Zero History, in which a character embarking on a high-stakes raid dons what the narrator refers to as the “ugliest T-shirt” in existence …
Google Photos v2.13 for Android adds video stabilization feature
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Stanford and Princeton researchers create ad-blocker that uses computer vision, can evade all known anti ad-blockers; available as a proof of concept on Chrome
A team of Princeton and Stanford University researchers has fundamentally reinvented how ad-blocking works …
Uber now allows riders who want extra privacy to input an intersection instead of an address as a drop-off or pickup location
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Peloton raises $60M Series B from Omnitracs, Intel Capital, Nokia Growth Partners, Volvo Group, and others for its driver assist system for fleets of trucks
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Lidar sensor startup Luminar comes out of stealth, says it has raised $36M in seed funding from Canvas Ventures, GVA Capital, and Peter Thiel-backed 1517 Fund
Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch :
Blink Health, an app that helps people save money on prescription medications, raises $90M Series B led by 8VC, bringing total raised to $165M
Lydia Ramsey / Business Insider :
Susan Fowler, the Stripe employee who exposed harassment at Uber, is named editor-in-chief of Increment, Stripe's new quarterly magazine for software engineers
As software becomes more important … ina : Login — Google's Rose Hayes, speaking at Thursday's Transform … John Kennedy / Silicon Republic : Susan Fowler to edit Stripe's new software engineering ma...
Filing shows India's Ola raised around $250M from SoftBank in Nov. 2016; sources say funding part of a bigger round that will lower valuation from $4.5B to $3B
Google has taught a neural network to sketch like humans, understand the concept of what it's drawing, and complete images started by someone else
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PagerDuty, provider of performance monitoring and notification tools for mission-critical applications, raises $43.8M Series C from Accel, a16z, Bessemer, more
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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